Kyle Lowry left the second quarter two minutes early to 'decompress'

With Cleveland going on a 16-2 run to end the half in its win against Toronto on Thursday night, Kyle Lowry went to the locker room with a little more than two minutes to go in the second half. It’s not totally unheard of: Players sometimes go for treatment, injuries or once in awhile simply to go to the bathroom.

But Lowry told reporters he was just trying to collect himself after the Cavs started to take off. As ESPN pointed out, 12 of those points came after Lowry’s exit.

Q. Kyle, when you went to the locker room with like two-and-a-half minutes left in the first half, what was the reasoning behind that?

KYLE LOWRY: Just to kind of decompress, get back there, kind of relax my body and relax my mind and knowing that we had a chance to kind of make some things, and I wanted to get myself going and get my teammates going and get the team going. It was nothing more than just kind of to decompress, breathe, get back out.

Q. Have you ever done that before?

KYLE LOWRY: Yeah, I’ve done it plenty of times. Just now the magnitude of the situation it shows a little bit more.

Lowry finished the game with 10 points and an ice-cold 1 for 8 from the three.

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